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  All We are Saying, 1970

  All We are Saying documentary (15 minutes, 32 seconds) directed by Rev. Al Shands, III. The film documents the March Against Death, a major anti-Vietnam War protest march and gathering that took place in Washington, DC, on November 13-15, 1969. The film includes footage of Pete Seeger leading protesters in song at the Peace Service in Washington National Cathedral.
  
  Rev. Alfred Rives Shands, III (1928-2021), known most often as “Al,” was an Episcopal priest, film producer, author, art collector, and philanthropist who lived in Louisville, Kentucky. He was born in Washington, D.C., and lived with his parents in North Carolina and Delaware as a child. Shands received a BA in English literature from Princeton University and a master’s in divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary, where he was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1955. In 1967, Shands met and married Mary Norton Ballard in Washington, D.C. In 1969, Al started Alfred Shands Productions, Inc., a documentary production company which he operated until 1983. The Shands moved to Mary's hometown of Louisville in 1970.
  
  Credits
  (c) 1970 Alfred R. Shands
  Camera: George Voellmer, Albert Ihde, Terry Proch, Sandra Bradley
  Editor: Sandra Bradley
  Sound: Curt Wittig
  
  Sponsors of the film:
  Clergy and Laity Concerned about Viet Nam Inter-faith Committee
  Union of American Hebrew Congregations
  Executive Council of the Episcopal Church
  National Association of Laymen (Catholic)
  Produced with the cooperation of the Rev. Philip E. Wheaton, Director of Inter-American Communication and Action
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  To Move Mountains, July 10, 1966

  "To Move Mountains" is a two-page typescript of Rev. Benjamin D. Berry's sermon on the Civil Rights Movement delivered on July 10, 1966 at Plymouth Congregational Church in Louisville, Kentucky.